<p>Hey, I'm really confused about what to do and need some help/advice. I've heard back from everywhere, and its mostly good news. I got into Cornell, Carnegie Mellon, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, Johns Hopkins, and a few others that arent too important. I applied for mechanical engineering at all of these. However, my problem is that I also want to do business, whether it be a double major program or a 5-year deal. I know Carnegie Mellon has a good engineering and business school, and so does Michigan. But, Cornell (Ivy) sounds so tempting. And, I got a decent amount of money from CMU, and the others I'd have to be paying practically in full. What do you think I should do?</p>
<p>Cornell's also got pretty reputable undergrad (AEM major) and postgrad (Johnson) business programs too. As far as education is concerned, I think you'd be perfectly fine at any school, as all are thought of very highly in engineering. Make the decision based on where you want to go. You may want to also consider location: JHU and CMU are both in big cities (Baltimore and Pittsburgh, respectively), Michigan is in a kind of "city" but still small compared to those two, and Cornell is in the middle of nowhere.</p>
<p>IMHO, Michigan is awfully big. I'd go with any of the others (but I'm biased toward Cornell!)</p>
<p>Depends on if you could stand living in Ithaca, some people complain because its so isolated and theres nothing to do, others are drawn because of that.</p>
<p>Cornell is large and has a lot of different activities going on so there should be plenty to do. The City of Ithaca is small (20,000 or 30,000 residents), but it caters to the college students and is considered a nice college town. Not as big as Ann Arbor though. There seem to be a lot of bars and restaurants around the Cornell campus. Hopefully people will have visited before going to Cornell so they will know what the school has to offer. Same is true for any school. It is important to visit and talk to people who go there.</p>
<p>can't turn down an ivy..bad idea</p>
<p>You can't go wrong with Cornell, and it's a great place imho, with a nice campus, albeit isolated. </p>
<p>But another thing is, you can't go wrong with Michigan. I'd pick Michigan over JHU and CMU, and possibly Michigan over Cornell, except I won't because the financial aid packages make it out of the question for me. Michigan is a great place, it's exciting, every program there is fantastic, pretty much, including a top 3 undergrad business program (Ross, their business school, is definitely the best out of all these you've listed)...</p>
<p>...and there's Big 10 football, and Michigan football is something you won't want to miss.</p>
<p>wow no way i have the EXACT same 4 choices and decision to make thats crazy. I'm leaning towards cornell because it's stronger in engineering than JHU and CMU and pretty much on par with Michigan. I don't really like the location, but then again cmu's and jhu's locations are not astounding either. tough decision...but i think cornell is the right choice for an AEM major. CMU for comp sci, JHU for biomed/premed, and Michigan is basically a bigger and more academically spread out cornell.</p>
<p>If you added Berkeley to that list, then where would you go.</p>
<p>i would say Cornell is better than UMich....and i've heard JHU is pretty ugggggly lol...I would pick between Cornell and CMU...</p>
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<p>Even though I am going to Cornell after being accepted early decision, if I had been accepted to Berkeley and Cornell RD (I had applied to Berkeley, but will never know whether or not I would have gotten in), I would have had a hell of a time deciding right now. Although I know a lot of people on CC look down on Berkeley (too hard, impersonal, blah blah), it's got the reputation it has (as one of the top engineering schools in the world) for a reason...and I would have been really tempted by the California weather and atmosphere if I was forced to make that decision. I always wanted to go somewhere within easy reach of a mountain (snowboarding), and the only thing that would have tempted me away from that was acceptance to Berkeley (or Stanford, but that would have been too big of a reach). You are going to have to make that call on your own, sorry :-P</p>
<p>If you go to Cornell, you have a better shot at that, which sounds right up your alley.</p>